Ideas for events
From AntiWar
ACTIVISTS IDEAS FOR STANFORD SAYS NO TO WAR:
- Teach-in
- Hold a Rumsfeld-Stanford Memorial Film Festival every year to memorialize those who have suffered human rights abuses and death because of their policies
- Project a film onto the side of Hoover tower
- Mock trial (Rumsfeld event sponsored by ASSU)
- Physical/Visual
- Films
- Outreach
- Rumsfeld-like activities lampoon his presence
- Rumsfeld Film Festival
- PROTEST
- STAMP theater
- Banners
- Christmas/Valentine’s cards to Hoover
- Balloons/ballon-banners
- Target alumni - petition to not donate
- Fast
- Website
- Speakers
- T-shirts
- Look for Hoover events and try to stage a protest
- Letter-writing/petition
- “illegal immigration into Iraq”
- Plan something during Admit Weekend or Parents' Weekend (i.e. hand out Rumsfeld brochures)
- Collaborating with religious community and Amnesty International (Hillel, Catholics, Muslims, Buddhists, etc.)
- Have seniors pledge to no longer donate because of Rumsfeld
- Clocks/counters (deaths, cost of war, etc.)
- Sit-in
- Die-in
- “torture-in”
- Live-in (camp)
- Weekly (or bi-weekly) talks at lunch-time with guest speakers (possibly Abbas Milani, Larry Diamond, Scott Sagan, David Abernethy, Lisa Blaydes, James Sheehan, Deborah Satz, etc. )
- If he ever makes a public appearance... some inspiration for action (from Heather on the facebook group): http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20071130_students_confront_ashcroft/
- March 18, 2008 is the 5 year anniversary of the invasion. UFPJ is organising actions then. http://www.5yearstoomany.org/
- From March 13-16, 2008, Iraq Veterans Against the War is holding a "Winter Soldier" event. An event in solidarity? See http://www.ivaw.org/wintersoldier
- A countdown of the 30 days in the invitation extended to Rumsfeld by the ASSU senate.
- Inviting Aimee Allison & Joshua Gaines to give a talk on campus. Here are some logistics.
- Apply CodePink's Valentine's Day strategy! Valentine's Day Kiss-In at Military Recruiting Centers. Brilliant! Don't enlist, stay and kiss! (The nearest recruiting centre to Stanford is down El Camino in Mountain View.)
